Stock-car



(No Model.)

H. W. SMITH.

'STOGK GAR.

No. 415,255. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY IV. SMITH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,255, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed January 2, 1889.

T aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. SMITH, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Stock-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide means of improved construction for convertin g a stock-car into a single or double decker, and relates to those cars which are provided with sectional upper floors raised to the roof or lowered for use.

My improvement consists in the construction hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a longitudinal section of a car at I I, Fig. III, showing the car in two-deck form. Fig. II is a similar view, except that one section of the movable floor is raised to its upper position, while the other section is in intermediate position. Fig. III is a transverse section at III III, Fig. II. Fig. IV is an enlarged detail section at IV IV, Fig. I. Fig. V is a detail end view of upper part of car-body. Fig. V1 is an enlarged detail horizontal section at V1 VI, Fig. II. Fig. VII is a detail perspective showing the link-connection with the inner corner of the floor-section.

The car-body may have any usual or suitable construction. The bottom floor is marked 1, the side walls 2, the end walls 3, and the roof 4. The movable floor is shown as composed of two sections, and will be so described. These sections are counterparts, and a description of one will apply equally to the other. Each section has two parts 5 and 6, connected by rule or knee joints 7, and has side pieces made in two parts 8 and 9. The rule or knee joint is capable of bending upward, but cannot descend below the horizontal plane of the floor when the floor is in its lower position.

At 10 are cross-bars of the section, and at 11 the flooring ofthe section.

The end parts 5 are hinged at 12 to the corner-posts 13 of the car-body in such away that the parts 5 may be folded up vertically against the inner end of the car. The corners 14 of the parts 6 are connected by links 15 with the lintels of the doors. The links are connected Serial No. 295,132. (No model.)

by simple pivots 16 with the lintels and 0011- nected to the floor part 6 by studs or pivots 17, which engage in slots 18, made longitudinally in the links. The construction is such that the studs 17 may pass upward in the slots as the floor is raised. (See Fig. II.)

19 is a staple or eyebolt, which is attached to one of the cross-bars 10 of the part 6.

In the drawings, (see Figs. 1 and 11,) the staple or eyebolt 19 is shown below the floor, and a hole is made in the floor, by which it may be reached from above.

20 is a cord, cable, or chain having one end attachable to the staple 19 by a hook 21, and having the other end attached to a head 22. The cord 20 passes over a pulley 23, whose hanger 24 is attached to the roof of the car.

25 is a screw rod or shaft running longitudinally beneath the roof of the car and having bearing 26, in which it turns, and which prevents its endwise movement. The screw-rod passes through the head 22 and is threaded therein, so that as the screw is turned the head is moved longitudinally. When the head is moved toward the adjacent end of the car, the cord 20 draws up the section (see Fig. II) until the part 6 lies directlybeneath the roof, while the part 5 lies flat against the end of the car, as aforesaid. (See Fig. 11.) The screw rod or shaft 25 has a non-circular end 27 outside the end of the car, to which maybe fitted a winch 31 for the turning of the rod. When the movable floor is in its lower position, it is supported upon posts 28, secured to uprights of the side of the car-body.

The head 22 is prevented from turning by a fin 29, which travels in a guide-slot above.

The links 15 may obviously be turned end for end, if desired.

When the cord is not in use, its free end may be supported by engaging its hook 21 with a staple or eyebolt 32, secured to the roof.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with a stock-car, of the upper floor-section having a staple 19, the hanger 24, having pulley 23, the roof having guide-slot 30, the sliding head 22, having fin 29, the screw-threaded rod 25, and the cord connected to the head, passing over the pulley, and adapted to be engaged with the staple on the floor, substantially as described.

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2. The combination, with a stock-car, of the l a rule-j oint 7, the part 5 hinged to the car-body,

upper floor-section and the elevating and lowering device consisting of the hanger24, having pulley 23, the sliding head 22, the screwthreaded rod 25, working through the head and journaled to the car-body and to the hanger, and the cord 21, passing over the pulley and secured to the head, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a car, of a fioor-section composed of two parts 5 6, connected by links 15, supporting the free end of the part 6, a cord connecting the part 6 to the head 22, a pulley 23 overhead, over which the cord passes, and a screw 25, working in the head, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY WV. SMITH.

\Vitnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, EDW. S. KNIGHT. 

